Association Noosphere, founded by Max Polyakov, launched a number of initiatives to promote interest in space science among youth.
Image credit: Spacemodelling sport in Ukraine via Facebook
Noosphere is a large, international, non-commercial and non-governmental organisation. Its focus is on the development of technology through the use of scientific knowledge. The organization is based on the philosophy of the Ukrainian scientist, Vladimir Vernadsky and is headed by Co-founders Max Polyakov and Michael Ryabokon.
The mission of the company is to make the discovery and use of scientific knowledge more widespread in order to promote its use in society and the business sector. Noosphere does this by implementing several initiatives such as conferences like AI Rush, Noosphere Marketing conference, Dribbble Meetup; hackathons like NASA Space Apps Challenge, Best device for FAI; tech fairs; and competitions like BestRoboFest and Copter Race, just to name a few.
Among all these, a special place should be reserved for those that foster knowledge about space. As the first steps towards space is rocketry, this is one of the main focuses of Noosphere. Due to the great contributions that Max Polyakov has made in amateur rocketry, he has been named the honorary president of the Space Modelling Federation of Ukraine. His passion has been taken further when Max Polyakov received the FAI (International Airsports Federation) Companion of Honour Award for his contributions to the development of air sports.
For instance, in 2015 Noosphere held the FAI Space Models European Championships for the first time in Ukraine. The organizing team implemented some exciting innovations, such as the online scoring system, CupNavigator, to help sportsmen and spectators follow the competition results in real time on a big screen. One year later, the FAI World Championships received tremendous support from Max Polyakov and Noosphere. The event welcomed about 7000 visitors and 300+ competitors from 19 countries all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Romania, Poland, Spain, China, and Ukraine. What is more, having performed excellently at the championship, a few of the students from the Noosphere Engineering School received the opportunity to visit Washington DC and participate in the Rocketry Challenge 2017 (TARC).
Noosphere’s support of space-related initiatives is related not only to amateur rocketry contests. This year, Noosphere took the opportunity to host the NASA Space Apps Challenge in Dnipro and supported all three host-locations in Ukraine. Experts from one Noosphere company in particular, EOS DA Inc. of Max Polyakov, joined the event and shared their extensive knowledge and experience in space and GIS data analysis with hackathon teams.
Image credit: Nasa SPace Apps Challenge Dnipro via Facebook
The Space Apps Challenge, which has been held since 2012, has created a platform for people all over the world to bring forward their ideas that can help the world, Earth and Space and the problems hindering exploration. Since their inception, the NASA Space Apps Challenge has gained a great deal of momentum. It now includes up to 69 countries, is held in over 187 locations and has houses 25 000 participants, comprising technologists, designers, scientists and coders - a diverse combination of various fields.
The competition in Dnipro, supported by Max Polyakov, this year brought together several young enthusiasts who formed 12 teams to compete for the chance to go to a rocket launch at the Spaceport in the USA. The Spacer team and their Diversity project, Dnipro People's Choice nominee, reached the TOP 10 favourite projects worldwide according to the international public vote. The Spacer team is eager to develop a new generation of space researchers and promote space technologies among children and youth. That is why, they came up with an idea of a terrestrial hub, which is a sub-orbital station prototype to imitate real space conditions and serve as interactive playgrounds for kids and teenagers.
Noosphere has become a great part of space technology, following the strong interest of its head Max Polyakov. Using these strategies under the noosphere concept, more knowledge and understanding can be put to the best use for the development of technology, as at its very core lays the spread of the knowledge of science and technology, and how it can be used to help mankind.